As of June 13, 2026, the legal headlines most likely to affect practice are clustering around a familiar mix: consequential court rulings, aggressive federal enforcement, and legal-system changes with downstream effects for companies and their counsel. For litigators, in-house teams, and compliance officers, the significance is less about any single headline than about what these developments signal collectively about risk,…
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A new inter partes review proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board could draw close attention from patent owners, challengers, and counsel following the medical technology sector. In IPR2026-00341, filed June 12, 2026, the petition is styled Resmed Corp., signaling that ResMed is involved in a fresh PTAB dispute over the validity of an issued patent.

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The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has required Taiheiyo Cement Corporation and CalPortland Company to divest assets as a condition of moving forward with their acquisition of ready-mix concrete assets from Vulcan Materials Company. Although the matter did not produce a court opinion, it is a notable enforcement action in a sector that sits at the center of public infrastructure, commercial…
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Ask any docket a question. Get an answer with citations you can verify.Legal research has always involved a familiar pattern: open a docket, scroll through dozens of entries, open the filings that look relevant, read them, and try to hold the whole picture in your head. For complex litigation with hundreds of entries, that pattern doesn’t scale.Today we’re introducing Talk…
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Federal District Judge Sharion Aycock has sanctioned and disqualified all the lawyers on both sides of a case, including local counsel, for including hallucinated cites in pleadings and for not verifying them. It’s a well-reasoned and well supported 23-page Opinion containing many of the relevant opinions from other courts. It’s also a textbook on how not to act before a…
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A Ukrainian national’s guilty plea in connection with the Conti ransomware operation marks another notable step in the Justice Department’s long-running effort to pursue transnational cybercrime actors through traditional criminal statutes. According to federal prosecutors, the defendant admitted participating in a wire fraud conspiracy tied to the Conti group, one of the most disruptive ransomware organizations to target businesses and…
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Anthropic this week unveiled Claude Fable 5, its most capable generally available model in the Claude family (a tier above the Opus-class models, in the ‘Mythos-class’). Fable 5 is already […]
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Amsterdam this week saw the 10th anniversary edition of Lexpo, the intimate European legal technology gathering that shines a light on some of the greatest innovations across the Continent and […]
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From : Blog Entry >> Ragav’s Blog Entry5 Questions IT Should Ask Before Building a Law Firm Intranet From Scratch! The build vs. buy calculus for law firm intranets — and the questions most firms forget to ask before the project starts. The decision to build a SharePoint intranet from scratch is rarely made carelessly. IT directors at law…
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Are midsize law firms in trouble? A recent Thomson Reuters Institute Report reveals some troubling findings.  As compared to other market segments, midsize expense growth is up, demand growth rate lower, investment in tech is less and less money is being spent on recruiting. That does not bode well if it continues. Here’s my thoughts for Above the Law.
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As AI-generated content becomes more embedded in legal and corporate workflows, QEL is focused on one problem: separating what can be trusted from what cannot. Its platform applies scrutiny to […]
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At The Washington Post’s Building America Summit in Washington, DC, an insightful dialogue took place between Vineet Khosla, Chief Technology Officer at The Washington Post, and Marian Salzman, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Senior Advisor to the US CEO at Philip Morris International (PMI). Salzman, a globally recognized trendspotter and corporate strategist, has built a career on…
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The U.S. Supreme Court delivered an important enforcement win to the Securities and Exchange Commission by preserving the agency’s ability to seek disgorgement in civil cases, including in the matter involving defendant Sripetch. For securities litigators and regulated businesses, the ruling is a reminder that even as the Court has shown increasing skepticism toward parts of the administrative state, it…
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